Contents: Liliana Sikorska: Allusion, influence, intertextuality - classical themes in the literature in English: by
way of introduction – Liliana Sikorska: The journey into the underworld in the medieval ‘Harrowing of Hell’ scenes of the
cycle plays – Joanna Bukowska: The tragedy of war hereos within the heroic and chivalric tradition: Statius and John Lydgate’s
accounts of the fall of Thebes – Jacek Fabiszak: The uses of classical imagery in Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II –
Joanna Maciulewicz: From the epic to the historical novel: the transition from the epic to the novelistic tradition in Sir
Walter Scott’s Waverley – Agnieszka Setecka: Between the mundane and the mythical: Victorian female characters and
their mythical counterparts – Dagmara Drewniak: Exile as suffering in Salman Rushdie’s Grimus, Shame and Fury
– Ewa Urbaniak-Rybicka: «I suffer Therefore I Change» - the echoes of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Aritha van Herk’s No
fixed address: an amorousjourney – Izabela Krystek: De(con)struction, transformation, metamorphosis - the mythical
and the magical in The invention of the world by Jack Hodgins – Dagmara Krzyżaniak: Aspects of classical tragedy in
Edward Bond’s The Women – Ryszard Bartnik: Tropes of the classical ‘Passage through Hell’ in works of twentieth century
English writers.